LLVMSwift is a set of Swifty API wrappers for the LLVM C API. It makes compiler development feel great from Swift!
To start emitting IR, you'll want to create a Module
object, with an optional Context
parameter, and an IRBuilder
that will build instructions for that module.
let module = Module(name: "main") let builder = IRBuilder(module: module)
Once you do that, you can start adding functions, global variables, and generating instructions!
let main = builder.addFunction(name: "main", type: FunctionType(argTypes: [], returnType: VoidType()) let entry = builder.appendBasicBlock(named: "entry") builder.positionAtEnd(of: entry) builder.buildRetVoid() module.dump()
The IRBuilder class has methods for almost all functions from the LLVM C API, like:
builder.buildAdd
builder.buildSub
builder.buildMul
builder.buildCondBr
builder.addSwitch
and so many more.
Plus, it provides common wrappers around oft-used types like Function
, Global
, Switch
, and PhiNode
.
There are a couple, annoying steps you need to get it working before it'll build. Number one, you'll need a custom cllvm
pkg-config file, which is included in the repo. Drop that in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
and make sure you have LLVM installed through homebrew
:
brew install llvm
Once you do that, you can add LLVMSwift as a dependency for your own Swift compiler projects!
This project is used byTrill for all its code generation.
This project is released under the MIT license, a copy of which is available in this repo.